Mr.Karan Thapar's recent interview of Ram Jethmalani was certainly his best battle till date. It even surpassed the one with Musharraf.
Mr. Thapar, slowly but skilfully exposed a man who was fed up with the way the world was treating him, like something from a different century, or worse, a once-genius who had lost his footing. Insecurity makes the best of people crumble, and Jethmalani is an apt example.
His antics grow day by day, no one is a stranger to them. He was made by the media, he wanted to die with it.
In his own words, 'I'd rather have bad media than no media' he makes no secret of the fact that he's not so reclusive as he shows himself to be.
What most successful people fear is that their reputation, their good name, shall be taken over by sm1 else after them. They don't realise that nothing lives forever. Everything has been created to vanish smday.
He was a hero once. Perhaps he had some conscience. Now, obsessed by the 'good life', as they call it, he has like evry1 else exposed to it, bowed low to temptations.
There are many such people, but we don't call them on national TV and wonder about their conscience in public. What makes Mr.Jethmalani's case special is that once, even if 4 a short period, he was a hero. Now, he's the villian evry1 of us pity. 'Poor guy..'